Marseille Studio 2022


I am a Berlin-based painter exploring the relation between abstraction and figuration.

A space where memory, sensation and lived experience guided by intuition and an evolving painting practice allow my subjects, their transformations and history to flow into my creative process.




I immerse myself in the atmospheres, rhythms and cultural textures encountered during my research journeys.


Those encounters are translated in shape and color through processes of layering, gesture and chromatic exploration often in my studio—or on site, as I also paint during my travels.
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"while I am painting I am somewhere else and everywhere at the same time"

Studio

From my Berlin Studio, where I have been working since 2020, my practice extends abroad through self-initiated residencies where lived experience and research entangle.
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Large-scale canvases are my preferred format, my paperwork series complete my projects and add to the ideas as a sketch of my narrative, they let me explore ideas freely, occasionally evolving into works as large as the canvases themselves.
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Repeated stays in the south of France, other European cities, as well as longer periods in Indonesia, Bolivia and lately Brazil have taught me to read environments and the essence I want to engage with. My current project is rooted in Brazil, where Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo are my focus.

Practice

I think of my work as a literary medium with infinite possibilities. Growing up with a close relationship to nature and literature, painting gives me the stage to melt both without words. My studies in social sciences and languages in Berlin are a tool to explore certain subjects more deeply and to read into the history and transformations of the geographies I work with.

Largely self-taught in painting, based on perception, knowledge and lived experience my practice grows constantly through an intuitive engagement with my compositions bringing together embodied experience and the desire to create and communicate without words but through color and shape.

Process

In the making and creating of my artworks there is an ongoing process of construction and deconstruction, a dialogue with my subjects, where dreams, poetry, mythos or a certain 'magical' state interact and melt, I work on the particular spot, where a voice of authenticity emerges through color, symbolism, gesture and atmosphere rather than representation — responding to what catches my attention in a given moment or place reveals what I already find myself wanting to explore.


Creating

I begin to work way before I grab charcoal and canvas, my first impressions and recurring images of specific situations lead me during the creative path.

When I open the stage or space where something deeper than perception, memory and dream intertwine, I am certain I am after something I want to work on and engage with on my canvas.


Bio

My Latin American origins and more than two decades living in Europe have taught me to work in an ongoing dialogue between space and sensory experience

Vita

‍Exhibitions
2024 — Solo Exhibition, Glockenhof, Zurich
2023 — Solo Exhibition, KIM, Metelen, Germany
Research stays & residencies
2026 — Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo
2025 — Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro,
New York, London, Costa del Sol, Mumbai
2024 — New York, Zurich, Marseille,
London, Istanbul
2023 — New York, Indonesia, Zurich, Marseille
2022 — Marseille, Aix-en-Provence
2021 — Marseille, Aix-en-Provence
‍Education
Self taught painter
Studies in Social Sciences and Languages, Berlin
‍Based in
Berlin, Germany

info@elianacampos.com
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